Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-12-19 The Heart of Mindfulness: The Four Foundations and The Divine Abodes 63:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk brings together the awakened states of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity into our Four Foundations of Mindfulness practice. Filled with stories, laughter and song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-14 Evening - Finding rhythms and structures you need and taking them home with you - 3 characteristics 55:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
What can you take with you from the retreat? Using the occasion of retreat to develop wisdom of understanding - the 4 satipatannas / foundations of mindfulness; the transient nature of satisfaction; the rich man and the Porche; things are never finished; this is “mine”; seeing how conditions give rise to certain kinds of thinking; the release of the citta from clinging generally happens a little bit at a time; training the wisdom element.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Preparing and encouraging a place for the Chitta - Settling into Samatha - Emptying - Forgiving 52:22
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Finding a place to rest; preparing a nest to allow the citta to settle with the body; breathing through the body; releasing the past, cleaning the house; mindfulness of death; forgiveness of oneself and others
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Cultivating Sati 31:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness is like a hand to hold things; how and why and want to hold? The need for correct application, correct object, correct way of holding. The breath and its vitality.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta 57:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Morning Reflection - How to practice 53:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-07 4th Foundation of Mindfulness Part 1 of 3 1:35:00
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Talk from the 4th daylong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Four Foundations of Mindfulness

2014-12-02 The Liberating Power of Mindfulness and Kindness 47:07
Dana DePalma	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Joy of Letting Go-Restoration, Forgiveness, Renewal Retreat Schedule

2014-11-26 A Generous Heart 1:18:02

Tara Brach

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Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of connectedness and care that gives rise to generosity. As we bring these heart practices alive in our most immediate relationships, they have the power to evolve consciousness in widening circles across the world.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-11-22 Wise Clarity About The Causes Of Happiness 57:04
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk reviews the core elements of mindfulness and how we use it to uncover our intentions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-21 How Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom Open 54:12
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A reflection on the "five Spiritual faculties", intrinsic capacities of the human mind, open and are known in spiritual practice. Howe the relate to balance and balance each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-11-19 Awakening Through Change and Loss 1:19:42

Tara Brach

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Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely related to how we open to the truth of impermanence. This talk examines how our ways of trying to control life solidify our perception of being separate and threatened. We then look at the wings of mindful presence and compassion that open us to loss and grief, and reveal the loving awareness that is beyond birth and death.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-11-09 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness Daylong 40:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The Third Foundation #2: Further Instructions and Ways of Practicing Based on the Text
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Moving Into Meditation: Working with Hindrances through Mindful Yoga (4-week class series)

2014-11-09 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness Daylong 41:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The Third Foundation #1: Initial Instructions, Key Terms, and Ways of Practicing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Moving Into Meditation: Working with Hindrances through Mindful Yoga (4-week class series)

2014-11-06 Freedom From the Four Distorted Preceptions 61:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The practice of the four foundations of mindfulness can help us to overcome the four distorted perceptions; and lead us to freedom of the heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-05 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness - Mental States 39:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary

2014-11-05 Mindfulness Instruction 57:27
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : "...in the footprint of the Buddha...'' Samatha / Concentration Retreat

2014-11-04 Mindfulness of Body 50:27
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary

2014-11-02 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5 68:40
Thanissara, Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika, David Loy	Download Listen
Thanissara with David Loy, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni and Ayya Santacitta Bhikkhuni. Unfortunately, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi was ill on the day of our call and was not able to join us. We wish him a speedy and thorough recovery. In this call, Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni mentioned two resources: the international, interfaith effort Our Voices as well as the “Pledge to Mobilize” at the Climate Mobilization. She also invited those interested in taking action together as Buddhists on the national or local/regional level to email her at santussika at gmail.com. Finally, Dave Damm-Luhr mentioned the upcoming film from the same group that brought us “The Overview Effect.” This new film, “Planetary” (see the trailer here) maybe well-timed for action around the March deadline for targets into the UN climate talks that Lou mentioned.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-31 Mindfulness Of Vedana 44:44
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Being aware of the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral flavors of our experience, is a gateway to liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-30 Mindful Of Emotions 48:07
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The arising of emotion is beyond our control but mindfulness of emotion can make a difference between freedom and bondage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-26 Mindfulness and Sports 56:05
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-10-26 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4 65:35
Thanissara, Bonnie Duran, Chas DiCapua, Vinny Ferraro	Download Listen
Thanissara with Bonnie Duran, Chas DiCapua and Vinny Ferraro.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-21 Kamma and Intention: A Fresh Start 24:54
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk by Shaila Catherine was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." Action influenced by intention is called kamma in the Pali language or karma in Sanskrit. We condition patterns, habits, and create pleasant or painful results through repeated intentional actions. The key to working with our patterns is not in the past, it is how we relate to present events. We are not condemned to dwell in any mental state. We have the potential to disentangle ourselves from suffering and cease creating causes for suffering. When we are mindful, we can notice the process that occurs between a stimulus and our response. Then, supported by calmness, wisdom, and clear intention, we stop reacting to life through the conditioned force of habit and may experience a truly spontaneous, free response to life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-10-19 The Third Nobel Truth 61:39
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness of fetters (mental defilements)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1